Ache

I don't want to remember...

That simple word was what started it all. That shadowy figure changed my life.

Snapped out of my trance, I slowly headed back to the front door. Something has changed, but I cannot put my finger on it. My heart is pounding but I don't know why.

Once in the safety of my house, I wordlessly walk upstairs and crawl into bed. I didn't change my clothes, or brush my teeth as usual, I just felt the urge that if I went to sleep, I would wake up and have forgotten the strange phenomenon as if it were a dream. So, I closed my eyes, and let sleep take me away.

--dream--

The first thing I was aware of was my form. I was hovering, and I had control over my thoughts, but not my actions, state or emotions.

The view below me was very odd. A girl, most likely a teen, stood in a chamber. A blinding white light was coming from the left side of the chamber, and could only be seen on the left half of the chamber for coming from the right side was a black haze that covered the light. The girl stood directly in the middle of this half-light, half-dark chamber, with one foot on either side. On the light side of the chamber, lite light bulbs hung randomly from the ceiling. On the dark side, dull, lifeless light bulbs hung. Parallel from the girl stood a shadowy figure, the same shadowy figure I had seen. The figure seemed to be staring at the girl, reaching into the depths of the girls soul. Like a staring contest, they stood in silence for many minutes.

I felt many emotions pass through me: Fear, adrenalin, and regret. As if I was feeling what the girl should be.

Finally breaking the stare, the girl cowered in her place and something even stranger happened. The fog from the right engulfed the light from the left, and the whole chamber became dark. Slowly the figure faded away and the girl did too.

That's when I woke up.

--Dream end--

I woke tears streaming down my face. I had remembered a dream. For the first time in my life. And it was horrible.